Issac Morehouse argues at Students for Liberty that dropping out of college may be the best thing you could do, especially if you want to be an entrepreneur.
What is college for?
If it’s a four year social experience, it seems really overpriced. If it’s to gain knowledge, why not learn from better teachers and do it free online, and at coffee shops with friends? If it’s to prepare you for a successful career, it’s the most absurd format imaginable: You are supposed to learn how to be successful in the marketplace through a system mostly sheltered from the marketplace, from people who mostly hate the marketplace and have chosen a career that protects them from it.
If we taught bike riding like we prep for careers, you’d spend twenty years reading about bikes without riding, until you graduate, at which point you’d be dropped off in the middle of the highway and be told, “Good luck!”
So what is college for? For some specialized careers, it’s illegal to work without a degree (medicine, law, etc.), but most people get degrees in generic fields like business, communications, marketing, or political science. Most people go to college to feel normal, and to signal to the world that they are normal.
The education system rewards obedience. It rewards compliance. It rewards following the rules, no matter how arbitrary and valueless they may be. No one ever changed the world by obeying.
Alternatives change the world. Alternatives to the status quo institutions that constrain and oppress. It takes entrepreneurs to create alternatives. Yet entrepreneurship is the very quality the education system is designed to beat out of you.
You go to college to signal to the status quo that you are no threat. You did what you were supposed to…
Read more at Students for Liberty.
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